1963 Nankai Hawks Statistics
Team Record: 85-61
Finished 2nd in the JPPL
Manager: Kazuto Tsuruoka (85-61)
Location: Osaka, Japan
Ballpark: Osaka Stadium
The Nankai Hawks of the Japan Pacific League ended the 1963 season with a record of 85 wins and 61 losses, finishing second in the JPPL.
The Hawks topped the league with 626 runs, ignited by 184 home runs. Nankai yielded 485 runs. Katsuya Nomura crushed 52 homers for the team, while Kent Hadley, Buddy Peterson and Kenji Koike each walloped 15 or more, too. Katsuya Nomura accounted for 135 RBI. Shozo Higuchi led all regular batters with a .312 average. Chikara Morinaka paced the team with 17 wins, and Mutsuo Minagawa registered a 2.54 earned run average, tops among pitchers with enough qualifying appearances.
Players from the 1963 Nankai Hawks who spent time in Major League Baseball during their careers included Kent Hadley, Masanori Murakami, Buddy Peterson and Joe Stanka.
Kazuto Tsuruoka served as manager.Click on column headings to sort.
Pitching:
Player | W | L | W% | ERA | G | GS | GF | CG | SHO | SV | IP | H | R | ER | HR | BB | IBB | SO | HBP | BK | WP | BF |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Chikara Morinaka | 17 | 8 | .680 | 2.61 | 47 | 29 | 11 | 13 | 3 | 217.3 | 191 | 76 | 63 | 12 | 51 | 5 | 116 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 866 | |
Joe Stanka | 14 | 7 | .667 | 2.56 | 34 | 29 | 5 | 7 | 4 | 186.3 | 154 | 63 | 53 | 13 | 60 | 1 | 89 | 7 | 0 | 4 | 756 | |
Tadashi Sugiura | 14 | 16 | .467 | 2.64 | 51 | 24 | 19 | 9 | 1 | 252.7 | 217 | 86 | 74 | 30 | 46 | 5 | 156 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 990 | |
Kiyohiro Miura | 13 | 12 | .520 | 2.54 | 57 | 24 | 18 | 7 | 3 | 219.7 | 182 | 77 | 62 | 17 | 64 | 5 | 96 | 14 | 0 | 1 | 886 | |
Mutsuo Minagawa | 12 | 9 | .571 | 2.54 | 53 | 12 | 18 | 2 | 1 | 188.0 | 165 | 62 | 53 | 16 | 33 | 3 | 96 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 736 | |
Eiichiro Takahashi | 11 | 6 | .647 | 3.17 | 43 | 27 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 161.7 | 143 | 65 | 57 | 11 | 47 | 1 | 84 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 663 | |
Akitada Niiyama | 4 | 1 | .800 | 2.85 | 41 | 2 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 98.0 | 87 | 37 | 31 | 7 | 13 | 2 | 49 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 374 | |
Takashige Kanehiko | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | ||
Goro Tomishima | 0 | 0 | 4.09 | 32 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 22.0 | 25 | 12 | 10 | 3 | 9 | 0 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 96 | ||
Masanori Murakami | 0 | 0 | 4.50 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2.0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | ||
Toshihiro Hayashi | 0 | 2 | .000 | 3.31 | 13 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 16.3 | 21 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 74 | |
Totals | 85 | 61 | .582 | 2.70 | 375 | 150 | 107 | 43 | 12 | 0 | 1365.0 | 1188 | 485 | 410 | 111 | 331 | 22 | 713 | 40 | 2 | 10 | 5454 |
Batting:
Player | GP | PA | AB | R | H | 2B | 3B | HR | RBI | SB | CS | BB | SO | BA | OBP | SLG | OPS | TB | DP | HBP | SH | SF | IBB |
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Yoshinori Hirose | 149 | 675 | 626 | 92 | 187 | 27 | 8 | 14 | 60 | 45 | 7 | 41 | 45 | .299 | .342 | .435 | .777 | 272 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 0 |
Katsuya Nomura | 150 | 643 | 550 | 104 | 160 | 20 | 2 | 52 | 135 | 4 | 5 | 84 | 112 | .291 | .386 | .618 | 1.004 | 340 | 24 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 11 |
Kent Hadley | 137 | 560 | 518 | 67 | 153 | 25 | 0 | 30 | 84 | 1 | 3 | 36 | 97 | .295 | .341 | .517 | .858 | 268 | 11 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 4 |
Shozo Higuchi | 135 | 510 | 464 | 57 | 145 | 12 | 9 | 3 | 33 | 9 | 5 | 23 | 23 | .312 | .351 | .397 | .747 | 184 | 2 | 5 | 17 | 1 | 0 |
Kenji Koike | 149 | 603 | 534 | 70 | 127 | 19 | 3 | 22 | 65 | 20 | 14 | 47 | 82 | .238 | .302 | .408 | .710 | 218 | 8 | 4 | 14 | 4 | 0 |
Buddy Peterson | 130 | 524 | 465 | 67 | 112 | 16 | 0 | 24 | 69 | 3 | 0 | 41 | 54 | .241 | .305 | .430 | .735 | 200 | 17 | 6 | 3 | 9 | 0 |
Noboru Inoue | 132 | 399 | 369 | 37 | 95 | 14 | 2 | 14 | 39 | 3 | 5 | 19 | 52 | .257 | .299 | .420 | .719 | 155 | 9 | 3 | 8 | 0 | 0 |
Motoaki Horigome | 122 | 321 | 292 | 27 | 75 | 12 | 4 | 6 | 24 | 5 | 7 | 16 | 28 | .257 | .305 | .387 | .692 | 113 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 0 |
Nobushige Morishita | 139 | 381 | 348 | 28 | 75 | 10 | 1 | 4 | 23 | 5 | 6 | 19 | 31 | .216 | .259 | .284 | .544 | 99 | 9 | 3 | 7 | 4 | 0 |
Yoshio Anabuki | 99 | 141 | 129 | 15 | 30 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 28 | .233 | .293 | .326 | .618 | 42 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Keiji Osawa | 90 | 123 | 106 | 13 | 25 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 14 | .236 | .314 | .283 | .597 | 30 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
Tadashi Suzuki | 89 | 116 | 100 | 8 | 20 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 24 | .200 | .252 | .320 | .572 | 32 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 0 |
Tadashi Sugiura | 52 | 83 | 77 | 4 | 17 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 27 | .221 | .259 | .325 | .584 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
Isami Okamoto | 54 | 74 | 70 | 9 | 13 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 14 | .186 | .219 | .286 | .505 | 20 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Teruo Shimabara | 64 | 64 | 54 | 0 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 5 | .204 | .286 | .222 | .508 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
Joe Stanka | 41 | 62 | 55 | 1 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 21 | .164 | .179 | .200 | .379 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 |
Chikara Morinaka | 49 | 71 | 61 | 3 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 21 | .148 | .175 | .180 | .355 | 11 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 0 | 0 |
Kiyohiro Miura | 58 | 68 | 64 | 1 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 17 | .125 | .138 | .125 | .263 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
Hiroyuki Nakajima | 51 | 30 | 28 | 10 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 8 | .250 | .276 | .357 | .633 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Eiichiro Takahashi | 49 | 49 | 47 | 2 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | .149 | .149 | .170 | .319 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
Akitada Niiyama | 41 | 18 | 17 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .294 | .294 | .588 | .882 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Sumio Watarai | 35 | 30 | 26 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | .192 | .276 | .346 | .622 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Mutsuo Minagawa | 53 | 55 | 48 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 27 | .104 | .140 | .208 | .348 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
Tsunemi Koizumi | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .500 | .500 | 2.000 | 2.500 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Kiyoshi Kanemura | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Takao Suzuki | 17 | 10 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | .000 | .200 | .000 | .200 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Goro Tomishima | 32 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Toshihiro Hayashi | 13 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Totals | 2136 | 5616 | 5062 | 622 | 1301 | 174 | 32 | 184 | 596 | 100 | 55 | 377 | 751 | .257 | .312 | .413 | .725 | 2091 | 93 | 39 | 104 | 34 | 15 |
Fielding:
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